Am pleased to be back in the US, safe and sound with my family. (Note to reporters: Stop sounding disappointed; it pisses me off.) The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) — which arranged for my trip — has released a detailed statement that provides basic timeline of what has happened at the …
Update from Tokyo
by | 2011-03-11 | 39 Comments
Ok, so that earthquake joke I made the other day is no longer funny. Apparently, those quakes were just the warm-up act for the massive 8.9 behemoth that struck us today. I was just exiting the Tokyo subway when it hit. News reports quote people saying that the quake seemed to go on forever. That …
Rokkasho Visit
by | 2011-03-09 | 12 Comments
Greetings from the land of the earthquake! Yesterday’s visit to Rokkasho was earth-shaking – literally. Well, the earth did shake, although I know correlation is not causation. During lunch at the Rokkasho site, we felt an earthquake. Then another large earthquake woke me up last night. Now, we are getting hit by a third as …
Assured Destruction
by | 2011-03-08 | 21 Comments
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had his hands full trying to set criteria for nuclear requirements at a time when the training and ethos of the Strategic Air Command called for taking the initiative and winning decisively. McNamara’s braininess, his coterie of civilian “whiz kids,” and their attachment to cost-effectiveness methods alien to the Pentagon …
